Muni (film)
| Muni | |
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Muni Theatrical Poster | |
| Directed by | Raghava Lawrence |
| Written by | Ramesh Khanna (Dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Raghava Lawrence |
| Story by | Raghava Lawrence |
| Produced by | Saran |
| Starring | Raghava Lawrence Vedhicka Rajkiran Bianca Desai |
| Cinematography | K. V. Guhan |
| Edited by | Suresh Urs |
| Music by | Bharathwaj |
Production company | Gemini Productions |
| Distributed by | Gemini Productions |
Release date | 9 March 2007 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Muni (Template:Lang-ta) is a 2007 Tamil comedy-horror film directed and written by Raghava Lawrence, who also plays the lead role. Vedhicka, Rajkiran and Rahul Dev among other play supporting roles, while the film's score is composed by Bharathwaj. The film released on 9 March 2007 along with a Telugu dubbed version of same name and gained average reviews and box office collections.Later,it was dubbed in Hindi as "Pratisodh-Ek Real Revenge"[1] In 2011, a sequel titled Muni 2: Kanchana was released by Raghava Lawrence. It was the first film in the installment of Muni (film series).
Plot
Ganesh (Raghava Lawrence), a young man with a deep fear of ghosts who refuses to even go out after 6pm, moves into a new house with his mother (Kovai Sarala), father (Vinu Chakravarthy) and wife (Vedhicka) not knowing that it is the residence where Muni met his death and where his spirit now resides. Muni enters Ganesh's body and Ganesh starts behaving in a rude manner, his family couldn't understand why his behavior is weird so they seek the help of a priest (Nassar). Priest asks the ghost about his whereabouts. The ghost says that he is Muniyaandi (Rajkiran) and starts saying his flashback. Muniyaandi was a kind-hearted poor man living in the slums with his daughter and other people. Muni's friend is Marakka Dhandapani MLA (Kadhal Dhandapani) who uses Muni to make him win in elections and promising that he would give lands to poor people. Dhandapani wins the election but he cheats Muni. Muni fights with Dhandapaani but he kills both him and his daughter. Dhandapaani lies to poor people saying that Muni and his Daughter had fled with the money he had given Muni for the welfare of the village residents. Ganesh accepts Muni and he enters his body. Ganesh enters Dhandapaani's household and terrorizes him and his assistants. Dhandapaani comes to know that the spirit of Muni resides in Ganesh's body so he sets a contract killer (Rahul Dev) to finish him. In the climax, at Ayyanaar temple Dhandapaani confesses to people that he only killed Muni. Muni talks to people and eats the feast prepared by his people. Muni then resides again in Ganesh and finishes off Dhandapaani. Ganesh comes back to normal.
Cast
- Raghava Lawrence as Ganesh
- Rajkiran as Muniyandi
- Vedhicka as Priya Ganesh
- Vinu Chakravarthy as Kandaswamy, Ganesh's father
- Kovai Sarala as Kannamma, Ganesh's mother
- Kadhal Dhandapani as Maraka Dhandapani
- Rahul Dev as Mastan Bhai, a contract killer
- Nassar as a priest
- Delhi Ganesh as Ganesh, Priya Ganesh's father
- Bianca Desai
- Bala Singh
- Meera Krishnan as Priya Ganesh's mother
- Asha
- Kavya
- Neelima Naidu as Chandramukhi
- Vadivelu David
- Scissor Manohar as House broker
- Kallukkul Eeram Ramanathan
- Pudhupettai Suresh
- Citizen Mani
- Rangammal
- Kavithan Rajamohan
Critical Reception
Muni received generally mixed reviews from critics. IndiaGlitz.com called the movie a visual treat from Lawrence. [2]
Box office
The film grossed around ₹ 15 crore worldwide and declared not flop.
Sequels
Muni 2: Kanchana, the sequel of Muni, released on 15 July 2011 in Andhra Pradesh and 22 July 2011 in Tamil Nadu with a different cast except Raghava Lawrence and Kovai Sarala and became a Super-Hit. Muni 3: Ganga was released on 16 April 2015 and also became a Blockbuster. A fourth installment titled Muni 4-Urvashi was announced.
References
- ^ "'Muni' completes talkie part - Bollywood Movie News". IndiaGlitz. 28 December 2006. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "Muni Review - Three cheers to Saran and Larencce". IndiaGlitz. 9 March 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2012.